Alex Laline // Clipper Round The World Skipper
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Alex Laline is a lifelong sailor and one of our full-time staff at 59º North. Growing up in a multinational family, he sailed dinghies as a kid in the UK, Spain and Indonesia, then got inspired to sail around the world when he saw an ad for the Clipper Round the World Race. As a teenager he saved all his money and joined Clipper as a paying crewmember, completing a circumnavigation and later going on to work as a mate and now skipper for them as well, under the guidance of Clipper founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. I talked to Alex about his career onboard FALKEN in Barbados.
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| 0:00.0 | And I was stuck there and I looked at my halliads and I was like, how the hell am I going to get down now? |
| 0:04.9 | Because I was completely tangled up in the whole rig. |
| 0:09.0 | On the Wind is presented by my own Harborburn Canon Company. |
| 0:13.1 | Brought to you by four of the founders of 59 North Sailing. |
| 0:17.1 | Harborburn was born by an idea of a group of my friends and I who wanted to add some fun and figured if you own a boat, you need to have a cannon. |
| 0:26.4 | Our origin goes back almost 20 years when one of our founders and friends, Tom Harrington, bought his first black powder signal cannon to mount on the bow of his Erickson 35 Jubilee. |
| 0:36.8 | There it sat for many thousands of miles aboard the boat, celebrating sunsets and making |
| 0:40.8 | people smile up and down the East Coast from Maine to the Bahamas. |
| 0:45.0 | To make a long story short, Jubilee sank at the dock in Florida during Hurricane Matthew in |
| 0:49.3 | 2016. Tom was able to salvage the cannon where it now resides on the bow of their Erickson 38 compass, |
| 0:56.0 | and we decided to create a replica of Tom's original black powder cannon. |
| 1:00.9 | So today, you can buy the Harrington Mark I at harborburn.com. |
| 1:05.3 | We've got one on Falcon. |
| 1:06.8 | August has one for East Bjorn, and Emma, co--host of the podcast, has one for her boat, |
| 1:11.3 | Seabird up in Maine. And they are fantastic fun. So if you own a boat, you need a cannon. |
| 1:17.6 | If you need a cannon, go to harborburn.com to pick up yours there. They are hand-stamped |
| 1:22.3 | and custom finished at Lee and Tom's garage in Frederick, Maryland and in Virginia, respectively, and shipped out to you |
| 1:29.1 | with everything you need except for the black powder to fire off your cannon on your boat. |
| 1:34.2 | Head on over to harborburn.com and see what all the fuss is about. |
| 1:37.6 | On the wind, it's supported by Forbes Horton Yachts. Forbes, one of the longest sponsors of the show, |
| 1:43.0 | is back again. |
| 1:46.1 | Huge thanks to them for sponsoring the show. |
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